Measuring tape feed



Aug. 19, 1947. A. J. BOHNENGEL MEASURING TAPE FEED s Sheets-Shet 1 Filed Sept. 13, 1944 V A. J. BOHNENGEL MEASURING TAPE FEED Aug; 19, 1947.

Filed- Sept. 13, 1944 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 @Einll lIl-E ATT'Y A118? 1947-. A. J, BOHNENGEL- MEASURING TAPE FEED Filed Sept. 13, 1944 I 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Aug. 19, 1947 UNITED STATE MEASURING TAPE FEED Andrew J. Bohnengel, Toledo, Ohio; August M.

Streicher as executor and Harriet Bell Bohnengel as executrix of said Andrew J. Bohnengel,

. deceased, assignors to Harriet B. Bohnengel Application September 13, 1944, Serial No. 553,933

This invention relates to incorporating a measuring strip with a bolt of yard goods. The measuring strip is used to show the partof the mate-- rial which is left in the bolt.

This measuring material is in the form of a narrow tape which is Wound up in the bolt with the other material. During winding, it is traversed across the material for the measuring tape to have a small amount of overlap. Under the invention herein, the end of the tape that is placed in the material to be wound, is drawn by the winding of thebolt to feed the measuring tape into the bolt being wound.

Referring to the drawings: I

Fig. 1 is a plan View, with parts broken away, of an embodiment of the invention wherein a bolt of yard goods is beingwound from a horizontal axis and the measuring tape is being wrapped with the bolt;

Fig. 2 is a view from the line II-l1, Fig. 1, looking toward the right and showing the feeder for the measuring tape in side elevation;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of an installation embodying the invention adapted to feed the tape upon yard goods being wound upon a vertical axis bolt or roll;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the feeder of Fig. 3, portions being broken away, but generally looking upward from the line IV,IV, Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the relatively movable clamp arm for mounting the measuring tape supply roll, upon a larger scale than the showing in Fig. 2; i

Fig. 6 is an elevation of the opposite .or inner side of the arm of Fig. 5; and

Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of the armof Fig. 5, showin parts broken away, and portionsconnected therewith.

A machine frame I (Fig. 1) may be located on 1 Claim. (01. 242-55) the web 4 thereon from the bolt 3 to form a length or bolt 9. I

When an end of the web 4 is placed on the strip 6, an end of a measuring tape 10 is connected therewith at the right margin. 'The measuring tape is of the general type of Patent 1,713,070, May 14, 1929, A. J. Bohnengel.

A holder or mounting is provided including a feeder device for the tape. From floor plates ll rise uprights l2 to a cross frame portion l3, in lieu of having the feeder carried directly upon the machine frame l. Astride the frame portion l3 are U-bolts l4 having nuts IE to hold V-seats l5 of' a pair of brackets IS. The brackets or arms it, intermediate their extent away from the frame bar 13, have nuts I! mounting a feed screw shaft l8. Toward the free ends of the bracket arms I6, nuts I 9' mount a track20.

The track 2|] supports a pair of rollers 2| secured in brackets 22. The brackets 22have horizontal opposing parallel arms. 23 extending from the track 20 toward the feed screw 18. In aligned eyes'in the free ends of the arms 23 is an internally threaded bushing 24, desirably of 1" internal diameter for diameter of the shaft 18. The bushing 24 and the shaft l8 having'thr'eading of similar pitch.

Between the arms 23, the bushing 24 is fixed in the hub of a wheel 25. Upon the tread o-r facing of the wheel 25 is a friction strip, say of rubber 26. Guide checks 21 extend upwardly from the arms 23 beyond the rim ,of the wheel 25 to hold the tape IE! from shifting sidewis clear thereof.

When the, wheel 25' rests on the shaft l8, a crescent shaped clearance 28' is provided between theunder portion of the shaftl8 and the bushing 24. Fixed on the bracket arms 23 is a light of the yard goods to be directed over a guide gage strip or wire 29 extending into this clearance. This prevents meshing of the threads of the bushing 24 with the shaft [8 at the underside. The wheel 25 may be lifted to have the threading at the top of the bushing 24 clear of the top of the threading on the shaft l8, and then the carriage, including the arms 23 and the brackets 22, may ride on the rollers 21 along the track 20.

Spacer bolts 30, 3!, 32, assemble the arms '23 to hold the wheel 25 in the carriage having the rollers 2 I.

Integral with an arm 23 and extending in an opposite direction from the shaft [8 is an arm 33. The arm 33 is below the track 26 and at its free end has a bearing for a centering pin 34 for a non-rotary disk 35. The pin 34 protrudes thru the disk 35 and serves as a mounting for a supply roll 36 of the measuring tape. Pivotally mounted on the spacing bolt 32 on the other arm 23 is a lever 31, 38. The end 38 of the lever abuts a stop 39 fixed on the arm 23. The opposite end 31 of the lever extends over a spring leaf 40, having one end connected to the bolt 32. The sides of the lever arm 31 have claws 4|v to hold the spring 46 from swinging on the bolt 32 away from the arm 31. Thru the end of the spring 48 is a pin 42. About the pin 42 is a spring 43 yielda'bly holding a disk 44 engaged by the pin 42. The pin 42 may be swung into alignment with the pin 34 for the disk 44 to clamp the M1136 againstv the disk 35. The springs 43,. 46, yield sufficiently to engage the centered roll 36, snugly between the disks 35, 44.

At the free end of the lever arm 31 and beyond the claws 4| is a screw 45, which, as adjusted, may press against the spring 46 to bow its medial portion away from the arm 31 and toward the disk 44. The disk 44 is thus adjusted frictionally to hold the roll 36 from free running. Backing off of the screw 45 reduces this drag or holding action upon the roll 36.

The supply roll 36 for the tape may be of larger diameter than the. disk '44. The disk 44 has arms 46, 41, to hold the tape from slipping off sidewise. The longer arm 41 may direct the reach of the tape In from the roll 36 toward the wheel. 25.

An instance of operation. may be taken by the operator placing an end of yard goods web- 4 on thecore piece 6.. Before starting the rewinding machine to drive the gears 8, the carriage 2-3 with the wheel- 25 andthe roll, 36' is located near the right margin (Fig. l) of, the yard goods web 4. A reach of the tape H] from the wheel 25 is placed on the web 4 at the strip '6. With the ends: of the tape and: yard material together, at the; first wrap, the material holds the tape taut. relation for drawing into the bolt being formed. A width of /54 for the tape. l; and pitch; for the threading on the shaft l8, causes the carriage: having the arms 23 and the wheel 25 to move. along the track 26" a distance of /64" at. each rotation of the wheel 25.. This distance is less than the full width of the tape to; The. traverse of the tape is crosswise of the width of the yard goods, and the tape overlaps slightly in its succeeding wraps. The traverse feeding directly controlled by the tape being drawn from the carriage. The tape to is drawn from the supply roll 36 and passes about the wheel 25 to cause the wheel '25 to turn. The wheel 2-5 turns on the feed screw IS with the bushing 24 in mesh. The reach of the tape Hi from the wheel 25 is, thus shifted crosswise of the web 4 from near the right margin toward the left. Upon the desired quantity of yard goods being wound, the machine may be stopped. The material and tape is then severed and the carriage is released. to be shifted for a succeeding rewinding operation.

A winding machine 48 (Fig. 3.). has a yard goods supply web 49'. The web Passes about a guide roller 56 in the frame 48. A bolt of the rewound material from the web 49 is carried on a core strip 52. End clamps 53 mount the strip 52 to be rotated in the frame 48 as carried by bearings '54. Gear wheels 55 of the machine wind the bolt 5 I.

The feeder unit may be mounted independently of the machine frame 48. A ceiling plate 56 has an element 51 extending downwardly to a horizontal arm I3. The arm I3 is a support astride which may be placed U-bolts M to clamp a feeder device frame member 58 with an arm portion 33 and opposite thereto a lever 31, together with a strap spring 40. The spring 46 and the arm 33 locate a pair of disks 44, 35, to mount a supply roll 36 therehetween. The disk 44 is yieldably rockable to adapt to the face or side of the roll 36 provided for by the pin 42 and the spring 43. The screw 45 adjusts the amount of braking or retarding of the roll 36 as the tape I6 is drawn therefrom. Even at a non-uniform lineal speedof the strip 52, there is no slack feeding of the tape I0.

The tape l0 passes from the roll 36 between guide cheeks '53 over friction tread 60 of a wheel 6 The tape l8 thus passes in an are over Wheel 6| and turns the wheel. The cheeks 59 rise from the frame 58. The wheel 6| is mounted in the frame 58. The wheel 6| is fixed with a worm 62 in mesh with a worm wheel 63. The. Worm wheel 63 is on a shaft 84 mounted in bearings 68, 69, uponthe frame 58. On the shaft 64 remote from the worm wheel 63 is a pinion 65 in mesh with a bevel gear 66 fixedon a shaft 61 in a bearing arm 68' extending from the frame 58. Fixed on. the shaft 61 opposite from the gear 66 is aratchet 18. A lever 1| is fulcrumed on the shaft 61 and has a pawl- 12 normally held by a spring 13 to ride in meshing relation with the ratchet 16.

The longer arm of the lever 1|, remote from the pawl 12, has therealong guide rollers: 14, 15, 16, 11, located to give a twist to tape being fed, upon the bolt 5lbetween wraps of the Web.

The tape feeder device (Figs. 3, 4) provides for the bolt being rewoundto be on a vertical axis. The measuringv tape is started near the. top edge of the yard goods 49- as: its end is placed upon a core strip 52 for winding into. a bolt 5|. For this starting operation, the lever 1| is tilted to lift the roller 11 just inside the top edge of the web 4.9. In this lifting, the-pawl 12 rides down over the teeth of the ratchet 16. Upon release of the lever 1|, the spring 13 throws the pawl 12 into mesh to hold the lever 1| to descend only as the ratchet 10 is rotated. The tape at the reach 16 is drawn from the supply roll 36'. The tape l6 from the roll 36 has sufficient wrap about the traction wheel 6| to transmit driving operation therefrom thru; the worm and worm wheel speed reduction 62, 63, and the second step speed reduction thru the pinion 65 and the gear 66 to the shaft '61 and the ratchet 16. The worm and worm wheel 62, 63 are one way in transmission operation, so that the pull on the reach 18 does not lower the. lever arm- H as to the roller 11. Traverse of the tape reach 18 across the width of the rewound material forming the bolt 5| provides a slight overlap between succeeding wraps of the tape into the bolt. Upon completion of the yardage desired in the bolt 5f, the reach 18 may be severed, and the roller 1? lifted to rock the lever 11 into a starting position for a succeeding bolt rewinding operation.

I claim:

A feeder for a narrow strip of material into a wider web of material being wrapped to form a bolt, said feeder comprising a. strip supply holder, a traction; wheel for receiving strip, from the holder and delivering the strip in the direction of the length of the strip, a traverse effecting mounting for the holder and wheel for sidewise shifting of the strip during its lengthwise delivery, and a speed reduction transmission from the wheel to the mounting actuable from pulling by the web on the strip being delivered to the web between successive wraps thereof, said transmission being connected to move the holder and wheel. in controlling the delivery of the strip, 10

sidewise across the web during the winding of the web into a bolt.

ANDREW J. BOHNENGEL.

6 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,034,575 Bohnengel Aug. 6, 1912 821,839 Stephan May 29, 1906 713,524 Stephan Nov. 11, 1902 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 6,364 Great Britain, 1896 Apr. 23, 1897 819,667 France July 12, 1937 

